I remember that demo. As soon as I heard it I went to Reliable Music in Charlotte and tried that system out. They had it all set up and someone that knew it well enough to show me what it would do. They also had this monster called the Kurzweil K250 if I remember correctly. I liked that too.

Yeah... SEM MK2 or whatever. I do like the early 80s Oberheim poly sound though. (Never played one, but the sound is great in records.)I don't have much room for huge synths in the studio unfortunately. The Alesis Andromeda and P6 cover my "poly needs" for now. If I had unlimited room and unlimited funds, sure, but the OB-X in particular seems to have prices in the stratosphere right now.I could roughly trade the Andromeda in for an OB-8 or -XA, but... nah.

I'm using Reverb's handy price comparison chart for this. Recently, a few A6s have fetched $3500 (though typically its more like $2800-$3000). The OB-8 and OB-XA actually runs roughly $3000-$4000 in the trades.

The OB-X hasn't sold a lot at Reverb. One sold for $2750; OTOH one sold for $9000.

By way of comparison, there is a new B-Stock of the DSI OB-6 desktop on Reverb for $1839.